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General  Orders  No.  4. 

Head  Quautkus  '1  kans-Mississippi  Dist.,     ) 
Utile  Ruck,  Ark.,  June  2,  1S62.J 

I.  All  persons  within  this  District  are  hereby 
required  to  take  Confederate  notes  as  currency,  at 
par,  in  all  business  transactions. 

II.  The  following  tariff  of  prices  is  hereby  es- 
tablished throughout  this  District,  for  the  articles 
specified: 

Flour $8  00  per  hundred  pounds. 

Bacon 25  cents  per  pound. 

Ucef 10      " 

Corn 75      "  per  bushel. 

Corn  meal 1  00       "  " 

Chickens 2  49      "  per  dozen. 

Butter 20       "  per  pound. 

Eggs 15       "     "   dozen. 

Potatoes 1  00  "  bushel. 

Ilfty  and  Fodder 1  50       "     ••  hundred. 

Lard 20       "     "    pound. 

Pork 15       "     " 

Turkeys 1  00  each. 

Salt 15  00  per  sack. 

Sole  Leather 50  per  pound. 

Upper    do      80     "         «' 

Harness  do    75     "         " 

Molasses 40     "  gallon. 

Sugar 10  cents  per  pound. 

Quinine $10  00  per  oz. 

Calomel 50  cents  per  oz. 

Morphine 15  00  per  oz. 

Castor  Oil 5  00  per  gallon. 

Ipecac 8  00  per  pound. 

Opium 2  00  per  oz. 

Tartar  Emetic 25  cents  per  oz. 

Blistering  Ointment  .     8  I'O  per  pound. 

fcpsom  Salts <J0  cents  per  pound. 

Soda ;'>0  cents  per  pound. 

PJiubarb 50     "         "  oz. 

Cream  Tartar 2  00  per  pound. 

Turpentine 2  50     "     gallon. 

Dovers  Powders 75  cents  per  oz. 

III.  Every  person  violating  paragraph  nuinbcr 
one  of  this  order, — and  every  person,  having  for 
gale  any  art'.cle  specified  in  paragraph  number  two, 
and  demanding  or  receiving  for  the  same  any 
higher  price  than   that  established  therefor,  or  re- 


fusing to  sell  the  same  for  euch  price,  must  be  nr- 

a«»t«<)  rwid  ~Pii»  to  th«»oc  H«*il-qutirt«n»y  to  l>4(.d??M)* 

with  as  such  inhumnn  and  di.«loyal  conduct  m:iy 
deserve.  Proof  of  the  fact,  in  the  form  of  alfida- 
viu  before  any  State  officer  authorized  by  law  to 
administer  an  oath,  must  be  sent  with  tlie  prisonei. 
IV'.  All  Confederate  officers  an.l  s^ddiers  are 
hereby  instructed,  and  all  State  ofliccr.s  antl  loyal 
citizens  aie  authorized  and  reijuestcd,  to  execute 
this  order,  promptly  and  without  respect  to  per.sous, 
in  every  case  of  its  violation. 

By  order  of  Maj.Gen.  IIindman. 

R.  C.  NEWTON, 

A.  A.  Genera'.. 


General  Orders  No.  5. 

IIkadquarters  Tra.\s-Mi?sissippi  DisrRic7;> 
Liille  Kock,  Ark.,  Jnne  2d.  18G2.         J 

I.  Private  property  within  this  District  must  not, 
in  any  case  whatever,  be  taken  or  "  impressed"  by 
any  person,  whether  officer,  soldier  or  citizen,  with- 
out special  authority,  in  writing,  from  the?c  Ilead- 
(atuartcrs,  and  such  authority  must,  in  every  in- 
stance, be  exhibited  and  read  to  the  owner  or  his 
agent  before  the  property  'u  taken,  unices  ho  shall 
purposely  absent  himself,  to  avoid  tho  same. 

II.  All  Confederate  officei-s  and  soldiers  are 
hereby  instructed,  and  all  State  officers  and  loyal 
citizens  are  hereby  authorized  and  re  juested,  to 
resist  and  prevent  the  taking  or  "  imp:*essmeut"  of 
private  property,  except  in  strict  accordance  with 
paragraph  number  one,  of  this  ordpr..  If  tUo  per- 
sons attempting  to  prevent  such  outrages  are  over- 
powered, they  must  report  the  facts,  at  once,  to 
these  Head-Quarters,  where  the  pr  )per  steps  will 
be  taken  to  punish  the  wrongdoer.  The  men  who 
take  or  "impress"  private  property,  wiiliout  au- 
thority, arc  robbers  and  marauders,  and  will  be  put 
to  death,  without  hesitation. 

By  order  of  Mij   Gen.  IIi.ndhan. 

R.  C.  NEWTOX, 

A.  A.  Ger.r"it. 


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